About Gate of Heaven Cemetery
Gate of Heaven Cemetery is a cemetery near Valhalla, Westchester County, New York. It lies about 1.3 mi southeast of Valhalla. Wikidata records 151 notable people buried here, including James Cagney, Babe Ruth and Mary Higgins Clark. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mount Eden Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the northeast. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Ballard-Durand Funeral & Cremation Services of Hawthorne in Hawthorne, about 0.6 mi away. It is one of 116 cemeteries we list in Westchester County, and 67 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 7 of the 116 listings in Westchester County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Valhalla. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery
Among them: 28 actors, 17 writers, 13 journalists, 12 business leaders, 12 US representatives, 10 musicians, 9 baseball players, 7 artists.
- James Cagney1899-1986American actor and dancer
- Babe Ruth1895-1948American baseball player
- Mary Higgins Clark1927-2020American author of suspense novels
- Fred Allen1894-1956American comedian
- Sal Mineo1939-1976American actor
- Wilfrid Voynich1865-1930Polish revolutionary, antiquarian, bibliophile, historian and eponym of Voynich manuscript
- Hector Guimard1867-1942French architect
- Ernesto Lecuona1896-1963Cuban composer
- George Jean Nathan1882-1958American drama critic and magazine editor
- Pat McDonald1878-1954American shot putter
- Anna Held1865-1918French-American stage performer
- Dutch Schultz1901-1935American mobster in the 1920s and 1930s
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- Dorothy Kilgallen1913-1965American journalist, television personality
- Elliott Nugent1896-1980American actor, playwright, writer, and film director
- Phillips Holmes1907-1942American actor
- Peter Glenville1913-1996English actor director and producer
- Billy Martin1928-1989American baseball player and manager
- Michael Higgins1920-2008American actor
- Heywood Broun1888-1939American sportswriter, journalist, and newspaper columnist
- Jimmy Walker1881-1946(1881-1946) Mayor of New York City
- Justin Pierce1975-2000British actor
- Arnold Skaaland1925-2007American professional wrestler and manager
- Condé Nast1873-1942American publisher (1873-1942), founder of the eponymous publishing house
- Malcolm Wilson1914-2000American politician
- Peggy Hopkins Joyce1893-1957American actress, model and dancer
- Constance Ford1923-1993American actress, model
- James Farley1888-1976American politician
- Peter Hujar1934-1987American photographer
- Raymond Orteig1870-1939American hotelier
- Spyros Skouras1893-1971American film executive
- Anne O'Hare McCormick1880-1954American journalist
- Fulton Oursler1893-1952American journalist, playwright, editor and writer
- Julie Haydon1910-1994American actress
- Spruille Braden1894-1978American diplomat
- Alfred Aloysous Bernard1888-1946American singer
- Pietro Yon1886-1943Italian organist and composer
- Bella Dodd1904-1969American communist and anti-communist
- Dudley Digges1879-1947Irish actor
- Iris Stuart1903-1936American actress
- John Patrick O'Brien1873-1951American politician
- Mario Biaggi1917-2015American politician
- Marion Sunshine1894-1963American actress and songwriter
- Philip D'Antoni1929-2018American film producer
- William John Burns1861-1932American Secret Service agent
- Malachi Martin1921-1999Irish Catholic priest and writer on the Catholic Church
- Michael J. Kennedy1897-1949American politician
- Portland Hoffa1905-1990American actress
- William Bourke Cockran1854-1923Irish-American politician
- Charles Anthony Buckley1890-1967American politician
- Joseph V. McKee1889-1956American mayor
- Ralph Branca1926-2016American baseball player
- Wellington Mara1916-2005American businessman
- Adeline Oppenheim Guimard1872-1965American painter
- Ann Mara1929-2015Socialite, Philanthropist
- Bess Houdini1876-1943Stage assistant and wife of Harry Houdini
- Dan Reeves1912-1971American football executive, owner
- Edwin B. Dooley1905-1982American politician
- Frances W. Delehanty1879-1977American artist and illustrator
- George Murray Hulbert1881-1950American politician
- Jessica Dragonette1900-1980American singer
- Mario Procaccino1912-1995American lawyer and politician
- Mike Tiernan1867-1918American baseball player
- Robert Abplanalp1922-2003American inventor and benefactor
- Billy Gilbert1876-1927Baseball player
- Bob Considine1906-1975American journalist
- Claire Merritt Ruth1897-1976Wife of Babe Ruth
- Dermie O'Connell1928-1988American basketball player
- Hilda Keenan1891-1940American actress and vaudeville performer
- John Dennis Ryan1864-1933American businessman
- John McSherry1944-1996American baseball umpire
- Richard Kollmar1910-1971American actor
- Richard W. O'Neill1898-1982United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Ronald Paul Bucca1954-2001American Fire Department Marshal
- Thomas F. Woodlock1866-1945Irish-American lawyer and stockbroker
- Tim Mara1887-1959American football executive
- Walter Aloysius Lynch1894-1957American politician
- Alexander Oscar Gettler1883-1968(1883-1968) Hungarian American toxicologist
- Antonie Strassmann1901-1952German actor and aviator
- Arthur Judson1881-1975American music manager
- Bill Gallo1922-2011United States Marine and cartoonist
- Bill Wendell1924-1999Television announcer from the United States
- Christopher C. McGrath1902-1986American politician
- Eugene James Keogh1907-1989American politician
- Henry Waters Taft1859-1945American lawyer
- Hirsch Jacobs1904-1970American horse trainer
- Jack Lynch1857-1923American baseball player and coach
- James Augustine Farrell Sr.1863-1943American businessman
- Joseph A. Gavagan1892-1968American politician
- Martin Thomas Conboy Jr.1878-1944American lawyer
- Robert C. Murray1946-1970United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Thomas F. Burchill1882-1955American politician
- Westbrook Pegler1894-1969American investigative journalist
- Federico García Rodríguez1859-1945Federico García Lorca's father
- George Skouras1896-1964American film executive
- James H. Torrens1874-1952American politician
- James J. Lyons1890-1966American politician
- Margaret Emerson1886-1960American socialite and philanthropist
- Mike Quill1905-1966American trade unionist
- Paul Dixon1918-1974American television personality
- Sal Yvars1924-2008American baseball catcher
- Thyra Samter Winslow1885-1961American writer and screenwriter
- Victor J. Dowling1866-1934American politician in New York
- Bill Froats1930-1998American baseball player
- Ethel D. Jacobs1910-2001American racehorse owner
- James Jordan1930-2004American ad-man and sloganeer
- James T. Lee1877-1968American lawyer, banker, and real estate investor
- John J. Dillon1856-1950American publisher
- Maie B. Havey1889-1971American screenwriter
- Marjorie Barkentin1891-1974American publicist, playwright
- Odette Barsa1901-1975Syrian-born American fashion designer
- Samuel J. Foley1891-1951American politician
- Walter Signer1910-1974American baseball player
- William Ambrose Prendergast1867-1954American businessman and politician (1867-1954); New York City Comptroller
- Anne Ide Cockran1876-1945
- Arthur Daley1904-1974Columnist for The New York Times
- Charles Edward Nammack1856-1926American physician
- Edward J. Walsh1890-1934American lawyer, politician, and magistrate
- Edward Lawrence Keyes1843-1924American urologist
- Emil A. Ciccotelli1929-1998American police officer
- Genevieve Ebbets Gilleaudeau1892-1972
- James Aloysius Farley Jr.1928-1986
- James Michael Kieran1863-1936President of Hunter College from 1929-1933
- Jim Buck1931-2013Professional dog walker
- Jim Reilly1948-1994American football player
- John F. Condon1860-1945American football coach
- Joseph M. Callahan1885-1973American lawyer and politician from New York
- Lester W. Patterson1893-1947American lawyer, politician, and judge
- Liane Carrera1895-1988Actress
- Mark J. Coyle1965-2007American political consultant
- Mary Frances Kennedy1896-1982Wife of Walter Michael Hill
- May Dugas de Pallandt van Eerde1869-1937American blackmailer
- Philip D. Gendreau1894-1979Photographer
- Philip H. Reisman1891-1957American film studio executive
- Randal William Borough1878-1951American painter and illustrator
- Alfreda Rochelle-Thomas1928-2019USA-Polish antiquarian
- Andrew Goodman1907-1993
- Anton Bilotti1906-1963American pianist and composer
- Charlotte Elizabeth Hill1877-1923
- Daniel Delehanty1844-1918U.S. Navy officer
- Edward Henry Norton I1864-1935Husband of Ella Galvin
- Edward Q. Carr1889-1984Lawyer
- Florence Burns1888-1986
- Frances Cagney1899-1994Wife of actor James Cagney
- George Theron Slade1871-1941
- James Joseph O'Malley1931-2018Chairman of The Blue Book
- James Reeves1870-1957NYC businessman
- John Francis Dailey Jr.1902-1971American lawyer (1902-1971); Assistant United States Attorney
- John Patrick Slattery1950-2014American newsman
- Kevin Coughlin1945-1976Born 12 Dec 1945; died 19 Jan 1976
- Thomas Kevin Milo Jr.1976-2020Early victim of the COVID-19 pandemic
- William Francis Kenny1868-1951American builder and contractor
People whose Wikidata entry gives Gate of Heaven Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
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What Gate of Heaven Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Nearby cemeteries
- Mount Eden CemeteryValhalla, NYCemetery0.3 mi
- Mount Pleasant CemeteryHawthorne, NYCemetery0.5 mi
- Kensico CemeteryValhalla, NYCemetery0.8 mi
- Broadway CemeteryHawthorne, NYCatholic cemetery1.5 mi
- Mount Calvary CemeteryValhalla, NYCemetery2.2 mi
- All Souls CemeteryPleasantville, NYChristian cemetery2.8 mi
- White Plains Rural CemeteryWhite Plains, NYCemetery3.0 mi
- Banks CemeteryPleasantville, NYCemetery3.5 mi
- Old Dutch CemeterySleepy Hollow, NYCemetery3.6 mi
- Old Methodist CemeteryPleasantville, NYChristian cemetery3.6 mi
Funeral homes near Gate of Heaven Cemetery
- Gate of Heaven Memorials0.6 miMonument dealer · Hawthorne · (914) 769-1452
- Monuments & Lettering Wholesale Direct0.6 miMonument dealer · Hawthorne · (914) 741-2300
- Sharongardens Memorials0.6 miMonument dealer · Hawthorne · (914) 984-4198
- Ballard-Durand Funeral & Cremation Services of Hawthorne0.6 miCremation provider · Hawthorne · (914) 769-4404
- Valhalla Memorials0.6 miMonument dealer · Valhalla · (914) 448-3800
- Riverside Memorial Chapel - Hawthorne1.0 miFuneral chapel · Hawthorne · (914) 664-6800
Listings from our sister site, Funeral Home Directory USA, sorted by straight-line distance. Call ahead: services, prices and hours are not shown here.
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